From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 27 15:36:42 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17jowv-0001BI-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:36:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:36:37 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Again/next? Message-ID: <20020827223637.GZ20007@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 820 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:30:21PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > la camgusmis cusku di'e > > > >I just realized I have no idea how to say 'again' as in "I'll read > >that again." or 'next' as in "The next time I'll do better." without > >using brivla. > > To get the "next time" meaning we can't use {za'ure'u} because it is > not the current bridi (doing better) that will be repeated, but rather > a previously mentioned or understood action (whatever it is that I > did, which I _didn't_ do better). I'm not sure that can be done > without a brivla. Well, given a hypothetical member of PA that meant 'more than the current amount by N, defaults to 1', call it xa'u, we could do xa'uru'e, could we not? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/